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40ft Shipping Containers in Missouri

Twice the floor space of a 20ft in the same 8-foot width. The workhorse size for contractors, farms, and businesses across Missouri, delivered with the price included.

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Specifications

40ft Container Dimensions & Details

The 40ft standard container offers roughly 2,350 cubic feet of interior space, twice that of the 20ft conex box, in the same 8-foot width. It is the workhorse container for construction companies, agricultural operations, and any business that moves or stores significant volumes of material. Weighing up whether to rent or buy this size? See our rent vs buy guide.

A 40ft needs a longer approach for delivery than a 20ft. For farms, construction sites, and commercial properties with the access to receive it, the 40ft is the most cost-efficient option per cubic foot of storage. Available in used WWT and one-trip. Our container condition guide has the full grade breakdown.

Exterior Dimensions

Length40 ft 0 in (12.192 m)
Width8 ft 0 in (2.438 m)
Height8 ft 6 in (2.591 m)

Interior Dimensions

Length39 ft 5 in (12.021 m)
Width7 ft 9 in (2.352 m)
Height7 ft 10 in (2.385 m)
Volume~2,350 cu ft (66.5 m³)
Door Opening (W x H)7 ft 8 in x 7 ft 5 in

Looking for extra ceiling height? See our 40ft High Cube: same footprint, one full foot taller inside, 8 ft 10 in against 7 ft 10 in.

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Delivery included. Missouri delivered pricing: starting at $2,332 for a 20ft Wind and Water Tight container delivered in St. Louis. Price always includes delivery.

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Use Cases

Who Uses 40ft Containers in Missouri

Rail and intermodal overflow around the Kansas City yards and the St. Louis barge terminals, where owned ground storage beats per diem on a steamship line's box and floor space is committed years at a time.

Vehicle assembly supplier storage around the Wentzville plant in St. Charles County and the Claycomo plant in Clay County, holding racks, dunnage, fixtures and returnable packaging at the yard rather than inside the building.

Equipment and implement storage on row crop operations through the Missouri and Mississippi bottoms, Little Dixie and the Bootheel, where there is room to work and most placements are a straight pull off a county road.

Gin, elevator and irrigation contractor storage across Dunklin, Pemiscot, New Madrid, Stoddard and Mississippi counties, ahead of a harvest that runs hard from late September into November.

Warehouse and dock overflow along the I-70, I-44 and I-35 corridors, and around the Springfield distribution corridor, where a container gives seasonal room without signing for square footage nobody needs in March.

Quarry, mine and heavy contractor storage across the Lead Belt, the St. Francois Mountains and the aggregate operations that run in nearly every Missouri county, where a lockable steel box on a rough site outlasts anything built on the spot.

Want Extra Height? See High Cube Need Less Space? See 20ft
Delivery

Delivering 40ft Containers Across Missouri

Site Requirements for 40ft Delivery

A 40ft container needs more room to deliver than a 20ft. The truck with a loaded tilt-bed trailer runs about 80 feet long. Here is what you need:

  • Approach length: about 100 feet of clear, firm surface ahead of where the container will sit.
  • Width clearance: At least 12 feet wide throughout the delivery path.
  • Overhead clearance: at least 14 feet minimum for the loaded truck. More is better.
  • Firm ground: The landing area needs to carry the container's weight, roughly 8,000 lbs empty. Concrete, compacted gravel, and hard-packed dirt all work well.

40ft Delivery Across Missouri

  • The St. Louis metro and the river counties, from the city and St. Louis County out through St. Charles, Jefferson, Franklin and the Rhineland: 1 to 2 weeks
  • The Kansas City metro and the Northland, from Independence and Lee's Summit up through Liberty, Kearney, Smithville and Platte City: 1 to 2 weeks
  • Mid-Missouri and Little Dixie, from Columbia and Jefferson City out to Sedalia, Moberly, Marshall and the Lake of the Ozarks: 1 to 2 weeks
  • Springfield, Branson and the Ozarks, including Joplin, Carthage, Rolla, Lebanon and West Plains: 1 to 2 weeks
  • North Missouri and the Great River Road, and the Lead Belt, Cape Girardeau and the Bootheel, including remote rural sites: 1 to 2 weeks
Not sure if your site works for a 40ft? Call or text with your address and a description of the access. We can usually tell you right away whether a standard tilt-bed delivery will work.
FAQ

40ft Container Questions

A 40ft container needs about 100 feet of straight, level run measured back from where it will sit, plus at least 14 feet of overhead clearance and roughly 10 to 12 feet of width. That straight run is the constraint that stops most 40ft deliveries, not the weight and not the turn into the property. Two 20ft containers often solve a site that will never take a 40ft, and it costs nothing to ask before you order.
Wind and Water Tight units start at $2,703 delivered in Kansas City, and delivery is included in that number. What you pay depends on the grade you choose, on what is in stock when you order and on the access at your site. Prices are set by our supply partner and change without notice, so the price quoted to you in writing is the one that applies to your order. Prices captured 2026-08-06.
Warranty runs by grade: one-trip units carry a 10 year structural and no-leak warranty, cargo worthy and wind and water tight units carry 5 years, and economy units carry a 1 year, no roof leak only warranty.
Delivery runs typically 1 to 2 weeks anywhere in Missouri, because two in-state depots at Kansas City and St. Louis put every address in the state inside a single day's run for a truck, with the far northern corners, the southern tier and the deep Bootheel scheduled with a little more notice inside that same window rather than with a longer promise Scheduling usually sets the date more than distance does, so the earlier you tell us the drop spot and the access, the tighter the window we can hold.

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